table manners
Noun
Meaning
An accepted code of conduct for behaviour at a dining table.
Basic table manners were covered in the first day of finishing school, but more followed.
The behavior of an individual while dining.
Some of the children had good table manners; some not.
Examples
On the Continent people have good food; in England, people have good table manners.
I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.
They didn't know why these things were funny. Sometimes you laugh because you've got no more room for crying. Sometimes you laugh because table manners on a beach are funny. And sometimes you laugh because you're alive, when you really shouldn't be.
Basil Stag Hare tut-tutted severely as he remarked to Ambrose Spike, 'Tch, tch. Dreadful table manners. Just look at those three wallahs, kicking up a hullaballoo like that! Eating's a serious business.